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I want to upgrade the boot drive in my laptop which I believe is M2 form factor, SATA drive. I've been trying to figure out what I would need to

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) Sep 28 '20, 14:44

clone the existing drive information to a new drive.

If I get a USB3 to M2 SATA adapter, I can hook up the new drive to the laptop via USB 3 port? Then clone the boot drive information to the new larger drive?

Open up laptop, swap out existing M2 SATA drive with the new drive with cloned information and reboot but with now more space on boot drive?

Easy Pesy?

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sounds right. a lot of the drive companies have software to do that (or used to). also some laptops have 2 m2 slots, just stating in case - tRuMaN Sep 28, 15:50 3
- Thanks. I hadn't thought to check to see if there's a second M2 slot in there -- (edited) - JD Sep 28, 15:55 2
  - Depending on brand you can probably look it up online and find out -- nm - Karl_S Sep 28, 16:24
  - I dont know how many have them or not, so its always worth looking for. -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 28, 16:02

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